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Gertrude Hoffman Girls wit Gertrude Hoffman

Stage Name

Birth Name

Gerturde Hay Hoffman Kitty Hayes
Gerturde Hoffman  

-Founder and choreographer for the 'Hoffman Girls'. The 'Hoffman Glide' (a social dance) was named after her. Her choreography and special dance efx brought her high praise.In 1912 she starred in The New York Winter Garden Company of 125 Performance at The Parson's Theater, Springfield, MA. Thursday, Jan. 30.

-Famous for her role and dancing in Salome. Later, for a brief period in her career, Gertrude would do impersonations of various actors and dancers, which was highly popular at the time. Gertrude helped to make Salome a popular role in the early 1900s, but as with most Salome dancers of the time (circa 1907), her show was stopped due to her indecent dancing.

-The Gertrude Hoffman Girls were a Tiller type formation group that used a type of athletic acrobatic transformation of the chorus girl with kicks, leaps etc. Hoffman was once in a law suit by Gregory C. Gusman (a dance teacher) over the teaching of the Rumba to the girls which they won.

Photos

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Heidelberg, Germany 5/18/1876 - 10/21/1966 n/a Max Hoffman
 

Dance Types

Dancers

Music Titles

Ballet Dolly White The Heaven Born Banner (1906)
Belly Dance Hoffman Girls Hoffmann Glide
The Hoffman Glide Julian Eltinge In Washington (Lyrics 1906 Ziegfeld)
Modern Dance       Linda Lee (Sheet Music Cover)   
Rumba (she learned it from: Rita and Fito)        
Salome            
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Winter Garden 44th Street Theatre (1927) 1903 - Punch and Judy Co.
Casino de Paris, NY* (the girls) Aerial Gardens (1907) 1903 - The Billionaire
      Liberty Theatre (1905) 1905 - Moonshine (Chor)
      Lyric Theatre (1913) 1906 - The Man From Now (Music)
      New Amsterdam Theatre (1906) 1906 - The Persian Model
      Orpheum Theater 1907 - The Honeymooners
      Paradise Roof Theatre (1903) 1907 - Salome
      Parson's Theater 1912 - Broadway to Paris
      Winter Garden Theatre (1912) 1925 - Artists and Models (the girls )
            1927 - A Night in Spain (Directed)
            danse le revue* (the girls)
            Her Husband's Wife
Gertrude Hoffman Girls / Dancers
Billy Macon (Lyric 1913) Gertrude Roland (Lyric 1913) Marguerette Crittenden (Lyric 1913)
Catherine Wilson (Lyric 1913) Helen Kerlin (Lyric 1913) Marjorie Roland (Lyric 1913)
Deforest La Fleur (Lyric 1913) Jack Clinton (Lyric - revue 1913) Mildred La Gay (Lyric 1913)
Doris Lloyd (Lyric 1913) Julia Carle (Lyric 1913) Olga Zalceff (sp?) (Lyric 1913)
Emma Cunningham (Lyric 1913) Lee Chapin (Lyric 1913) Rochen Baker (Lyric 1913)
Evelyn Hall (Lyric - revue 1913) Lillian Drewry (Lyric 1913) Stafford Pemberton (Lyric - revue 1913)
 

Films

Television

Publications

1940 - The Ape (w/Boris Karloff) 1952 - My Little Margie 2/27/1914 - Photoplay Magazine
1941 - Suspicion       8/11/1918 - Vanity Magazine
NOTE:Gertrude loved Harley Davidson Motorcycles, she purchased one. Llora (Lora) Hoffman may be related?
August 4, 2005
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